Episode 80 (Shore Leave)
the memory palace
Nate DiMeo
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.* First up is one of my very favorite recordings of all time: Andromeda from Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath. One of the finest bands ever assembled. * The sailors get grumpy to Sito from Pierre Favre and the European Chamber Ensemble. (The end drum loop comes from that piece too). * The guys run off to save the day to Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor doing the Green Groves of Erin.* That turns into, In Threes by Loscil.
Notes* Some of the details in here originate from a fine piece that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in May of 1944. You can read it here.* Other solid write ups: From The Book of New York The U.S.C.G. The Fire-fighter's Museum
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| 0:00.0 | This is the memory palace. |
| 0:01.8 | I'm Nate Demet. |
| 0:04.3 | The money was burning a home in their pockets. |
| 0:06.9 | Saturday night, just got paid. |
| 0:09.6 | And it was all about to go off. |
| 0:11.6 | The boys and the barracks put on their dress blues. |
| 0:14.2 | Could see their Tomcat smiles in the shine of their shoes. |
| 0:17.2 | Easter tomorrow. |
| 0:18.6 | Church tomorrow for most of them. |
| 0:20.5 | If they managed to wake up. |
| 0:22.4 | But tonight was a different story. |
| 0:24.9 | The dress uniform wasn't required. |
| 0:27.1 | These Coast Guard men could just go out and civilian close. |
| 0:30.2 | It would have been fine. |
| 0:31.5 | But why would they? |
| 0:33.1 | When they could go out in the town, this town, |
| 0:35.7 | the hell of a town, rocks up, battered down, |
| 0:38.0 | on a spring night in 1943. |
| 0:40.4 | With the bulk of the city's eligible bachelors off to war. |
| 0:44.1 | And the ratio of men to women tip delightfully in their favor. |
| 0:48.0 | And patriotic ladies looking to help the war effort anyway could. |
| 0:52.4 | And you and your squad could roll up in the spot. |
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